SECOND DAY

First International Conference Translating Music #1

The Idea of a Musical Work and Its Transformations

27 marca 2026, piątek, godz. 9.30-18.30
Sala 12, Sala 31, Pałac Akademii Muzycznej w Łodzi, ul. Gdańska 32

 
SCHEDULE

• 9.30-10.30 AM | Room 12 | KEYNOTE LECTURE 2
  Chairperson: Marek Nahajowski
  • Prof. Ilona Koutny
    Intercultural Communication and Multilingualism in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
• 10.30-11.00 AM | Room 11 | COFFEE BREAK

• simultaneous sessions

  11.00 AM – 1.00 PM | Room 12 | SESSION 7. COVER
  Chairperson: Krzysztof Majer
  • Mårten Nehrfors Hultén
    Cat Power Sings Dylan: Translating Popular Music Mythology
  • Tomasz Kienik
    Richard Rodgers’s You’ll never walk alone: Example of Diffusion of a Musically Originated Song. Arrangements – Transformations – Contexts
  • Júlio Reis Jatobá
    Re-/Constructing Construção: Four “Bodies” of Song, Musemes, and the Limits of Song Translation
  • Bernett Nkwayi Mulungo
    Re-Composing and Re-Arranging Indigenous Sounds: A Case of eBhofolo
  11.00 AM – 1.00 PM | Room 31 | SESSION 8. OPERA ARRANGEMENTS
  Chairperson: Ryan Malone
  • Agata Meissner
    Opera Numbers Transcriptions from Suits of the Most Celebrated Lessons by William Babell in the Context of Other Keyboard Arrangements of the Time
  • Sam Girling
    From the Stage to the Drawing Room: Arrangements of Weber’s Operas in Nineteenth-Century Britain
  • Małgorzata Sułek
    Stanisław Moniuszko’s Halka in Musical Translations: Preliminary Research
  • Izabela Jutrzenka-Trzebiatowska
    An Aria that Lost its Words. Translating Rossini’s Operatic Melody in the Polonaise in B-flat minor WN10 by Chopin
• 1.00-2.30 PM | Room 11 | LUNCH

• simultaneous sessions

  2.30-4.30 PM | Room 12 | SESSION 9. ARRANGEMENTS, CREATIONS, RECONSTRUCTIONS
  Chairperson: Tomasz Kienik
  • Niels Berentsen
    Broken Works: A Report from the Restoration Studio
  • Marek Nahajowski
    Improvised Counterpoint and Historically Informed Performances of Medieval Music. Theory vs Practice
  • Jörg Holzmann
    From Notation to Perforation. Music, Mechanics and Medial Translation in the Early Piano Roll
  • Kateřina Maňáková
    Singing on the Vihuela: “Instrumental translation” of Sacred Vocal Polyphony in 16^th-Century Spain
  2.30-4.30 PM | Room 31 | SESSION 10. TRANSCRIPTIONS FOR KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS
  Chairperson: Karen Bennett
  • Marcos Krieger
    Musical Ekphrasis and Translations of Rhetorical Figures: The Noema in Lasso’s Susanne un jour and its Transfigurations in Keyboard Intabulations
  • Mateusz Kawa (online) / Agata Meissner
    Forqueray’s Pièces de viol and Pièces de clavecin: A Perspective on the Performance Style in Different Instrumental Settings, Based on the Recording Analysis of Both Versions
  • Jana Michálková Slimáčková
    Transcriptions, Arrangements and Reductions in Czech Organ Music of the 19^th and 20^th Centuries
  • Maksim Štšura
    Translating Twenty-First-Century Orchestral Scores for the Piano: Transcription, Reduction and Performability
• 4.30-5.00 PM | Room 11 | COFFEE BREAK

• simultaneous sessions

  5.00-6.30 PM | Room 12 | SESSION 11. MUSIC AND TEXT
  Chairperson: Visam Mansur
  • Krzysztof Majer
    “I may have been hearing some Brahms”: Textual Variations and Radical Uncertainty in David Markson’s Later Novels
  • Agnieszka Muszyńska-Andrejczyk
    Metastasio and Popiel: Gioas re di Giuda. Polish Translation of the Libretto, Form and Character and Contemporary Usage
  • Rui Carvalho Homem
    ‘Words for Music Perhaps’: On Three Contemporary Opera Libretti and the Challenges of Intersemiotic Translation
  5.00-6.30 PM | Room 31 | SESSION 12. TRANSMEDIATIONS AND INSPIRATIONS
  Chairperson: Sam Girling
  • Agata Meissner
    Opera Numbers Transcriptions from Suits of the Most Celebrated Lessons by William Babell in the Context of Other Keyboard Arrangements of the Time
  • Karen Bennett
    Les Sauvages: A Case Study in Musical Translationality
  • Edna Holywell (online)
    Reconfigured Signification: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives on Dido and Aeneas
  • Sofía Lacasta Millera (online)
    The Interlinguistic Interpretation of the Score: Translation of John Cage's Compositions for Solo Voice